New perspectives on Romance linguistics, Volume II, Phonetics, phonology and dialectology selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005 (John Benjamins, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; AN ACOUSTIC BASIS FOR PALATAL GEMINATE BEHAVIOR IN SPANISH; MAPPING THE PATTERNS OF MAINTENANCE VERSUS MERGER IN BILINGUAL PHONOLOGY; NEW TENDENCIES IN GEOGRAPHICAL DIALECTOLOGY; OUTPUT-TO-OUTPUT CORRESPONDENCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE UNMARKED IN SPANISH PLURAL FORMATION; MAPPING FRENCH PRONUNCIATION; PHONOLOGICAL VARIABILITY IN THE LABORATORY; CONSTRAINT RE-RANKING IN THREE GRAMMARS; MID VOWELS AND SCHWA IN EASTERN CATALAN; THE NOMINAL STRESS SYSTEM OF ROMANIAN (RE)REVISITED.
This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith on skeuomorphy and refunctionalization. It also includes eleven contributions by reputed scholars on topics ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation. Formal phonology papers favor the model of Optimality Theory, while phonetic measurem